Tencent Hy4: 50% off ends Dec 31 2026-11-05

. List prices match Preview, and Tencent Cloud TokenHub cuts them in half through December 31, which puts input at about US$0.90 per million tokens and output…

2026-11-05 · John Lee

LLMJacking: $100K bills, stolen keys 2026-11-04

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reported on November 3, 2026 that attackers used stolen cloud credentials to run up fraudulent LLM charges above…

2026-11-04 · John Lee

gemini-2.5-pro retires Dec 1

From December 1, Google will reroute Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash API requests to other Flash models and bill the rates of the models they land on.

2026-11-03 · John Lee

Codex, ChatGPT share token budget

From December, OpenAI’s Plus, Pro and Business plans will share one token allowance across ChatGPT and Codex.

2026-11-02 · John Lee

Claude watermark has no opt-out

Anthropic has extended Claude’s text watermark to four older models, and there is no customer switch for it.

2026-11-01 · John Lee

Cursor Claude Code extension backdoor

A tampered Claude Code extension distributed through Cursor’s marketplace planted an SSH key and a backdoor on developers’ machines.

2026-10-31 · John Lee

Mistral Large 4: cost per task

Mistral released the open weights of its trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 model on October 29.

2026-10-30 · John Lee

Gemini 4 Carbon: wait to switch

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026. It has not published a date for small teams to use the API.

2026-10-29 · John Lee

Genie 4 puts a real-time world model before your game engine

Google DeepMind published Genie 4 on October 27. It is a world model that runs in real time. The split from Genie 3 is audio: wind, music, human dialogue, all…

2026-10-28 · John Lee

GPT-6.1 Terra halves agent token prices, matches Astra

On October 26 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra. Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens, $0.05 per million cached input, and $5 per million output.…

2026-10-27 · John Lee